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Lloyd plays botanist Harold Bledsoe, who is summoned to San Francisco where his late father had once been chief of police. His father’s colleagues desperately hope he is a chip off the old block and take the extreme measure of making him police chief to thwart the flourishing crime of the Chinatown underground led by the Dragon (Charles Middleton). Despite his lack of experience, as well as botanical and female (Barbara Kent) distractions, Harold nevertheless corners the Dragon and forces him to confess his crimes in front of the entire police force. Harold’s first sound motion picture was also his greatest commercial success. However, Lloyd was uneasy about the quality of the film in later years; he believed that the film—at 12 reels—was far too long for a comedy.
Original Release
10/12/1929
US Release
10/12/1929
Cast
Name | Character |
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Harold Lloyd | Harold Bledsoe |
Barbara Kent | Billie Lee |
Noah Young | Officer Patrick Clancy / Patrick Clancy SFPD |
Charles Middleton | John Thorne aka The Dragon / John Thorne / The Dragon |
Will Walling | Police Captain Walton / Captain Walton, SFPD 3rd Div. |
Grady Sutton | Man at Party (silent version) (scenes deleted) / Man at Party (silent version) |
Brooks Benedict | Handcuffed Prisoner at Police Station |
Eddy Chandler | Cop |
Rae Daggett | Woman Sitting in Police Station |
Douglas Haig | Buddy Lee |
Directors
Malcolm St. Clair, Clyde Bruckman
Writers
Harold Lloyd, Clyde Bruckman, Paul Gerard Smith, Felix Adler, Lex Neal
Cast
Name | Character |
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Harold Lloyd | Harold Bledsoe |
Barbara Kent | Billie Lee |
Noah Young | Officer Patrick Clancy / Patrick Clancy SFPD |
Charles Middleton | John Thorne aka The Dragon / John Thorne / The Dragon |
Will Walling | Police Captain Walton / Captain Walton, SFPD 3rd Div. |
Grady Sutton | Man at Party (silent version) (scenes deleted) / Man at Party (silent version) |
Brooks Benedict | Handcuffed Prisoner at Police Station |
Eddy Chandler | Cop |
Rae Daggett | Woman Sitting in Police Station |
Douglas Haig | Buddy Lee |
Edgar Kennedy | SFPD Desk Sergeant |
Tetsu Komai | Florist Henchman |
Wang Lee | Chinaman with Queue |
James B. Leong | Florist Henchman / High Priest |
Jim Mason | Barry Steele / Dick the Dude |
Nelson McDowell | 1st Train Passenger |
Soo Hoo Sun | Dead Chinese Man |
James Wang | Dr. Chang Gow |
Blue Washington | Thorne's Black Henchman |
Leo Willis | Cop |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Suzanne Lloyd Hayes | Executive Producer |
Harold Lloyd | Producer |
Jeffrey Vance | Producer |